[Lasa] President Correa to receive UIUC Alumni Award

[Marc Becker]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to let you know that the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign has selected President Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado to 
receive the 2009 International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement. 
President Correa took his PhD at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign in 2001 in Economics. His advisor and Director of 
thesis was Dr. Werner Baer, a distinguished Latin Americanist 
(especially Brazilianist) economist. The title of Dr. Correa's thesis 
was "Three Essays on Contemporaneous Latin-American Development." It is 
available at the University of Michigan ProQuest Information and 
Learning Center.

Congratulations to President Correa on this prestigious award.

Happy Holidays!
Norm Whitten

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